CLASS INFORMATION

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Hot 26

Hot26 is the original hot Bikram Yoga method, which consists of a powerful 26 posture series practiced for 75 or 90 minutes in a room heated to 105 degrees and 40%. The 26 posture series is designed to warm the whole body, allowing students to work deeper into the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, glands, ligaments and organs while systematically moving fresh oxygenated blood to every part of the body. As a result you will build strength, flexibility, balance and an unparalleled feeling of mental and physical well-being and relaxation. Each posture builds upon the previous posture and prepares you for the next. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well being will automatically follow.

This powerful beginners class is designed for all levels, whether a first time student or an advanced practitioner. Performing the same sequence each class ensures you will receive a safe and consistent experience, whether it is in your hometown of Cambridge, or traveling all over the world. Over time, the student learns how to focus the mind and breath, allowing them to practice deeper while remaining calm and balanced.

Some common benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Improves quality of sleep

• Creates overall sense of well-being

• Stretches and tones muscles

• Relieves chronic pain

• Clears pores, clears skin and improves skin elasticity and tone

• Lubricates joints

• Increases flexibility

• Balances the body

• Improves circulation

• Reduces stress

• Heals old injuries and flushes out scar tissue

• Improves heart function

• Expands capacity to breathe fully and efficiently

• Increases energy and stamina

• Detoxes the body

• Improves sexual and reproductive function

• Prevents repetitive use injury

• Improves focus and discipline

BREATHE STRENGTH (HOT HIIT)

BREATHE STRENGTH is a high-intensity interval training class designed to strengthen and tone the entire body using your own body as well as hand weights or other resistance equipment. It’s 45-minute class, practiced in a heated room to warm up your body fast from the inside out, aiming to improve daily living skills through better balance, strength, flexibility and agility.

Some common benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Maintains muscle mass and increases strength

• Boosts the metabolism and burns fat

• Improves bone health and helps to maintain bone mass

• Reduces stress and increases mental health

• Helps in preventing injury due to its low-to-no impact options

• Improves cardiovascular system

• Expands lung capacity

• Increases energy and stamina

• Improves focus and discipline

Breathe POWER (VINYASA FLOW)

BREATHE POWER is a powerful, energetic form of yoga where students fluidly move from one pose to the next while connecting their breathing to their movements. This type of yoga is taught in the heat which makes it a vigorous and revitalizing form of physical fitness, warming up the body quickly to keep it fluid and limber. It incorporates strength, flexibility, balance, cardio and physical and mental stamina in one session. It is the perfect blend of sweat and serenity. Vinyasa meaning, “flow” or “to move without resistance,” incorporates interval and cross-training exercises to challenge both the aerobic and anaerobic systems of the body. As your body adapts, it is important to vary the types, intensity and duration of the exercises.

Power Vinyasa yoga incorporates regular sequences that become familiar to students, but incorporates variations to modify, intensify, or challenge the body by altering the pace or duration of poses, and the frequency that they are repeated. BREATHE POWER focuses on a peak asana (posture) each month that allows students and teachers to interact and focus on a collective goal.

Some common benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Decreases blood pressure through better circulation and oxygenation of the body

• Slows pulse rate

• Improves blood circulation by transporting nutrients and oxygen throughout the body

• Detoxes the body

• Improves cardiovascular endurance through lower heart rate and improved oxygenation

• Massages the internal organs, improving the ability of the body to prevent disease

• Detoxifies and improves the function of the gastrointestinal system

• Strengthens the immune system

• Reduces stress and regulates the nervous system

• Lessens chronic pain, increases pain tolerance

• Balances the metabolism, helping to maintain a healthy weight and control hunger

• Increases energy and stamina

• Improves focus and discipline

• Improves sense of balance - physically and well as mentally

BREATHE BALANCE (Vinyasa Flow)

BREATHE BALANCE is a slower vinyasa flow yoga class, practiced in a warm room. The pace is slower than our BREATHE POWER FLOW class, allowing time to bring awareness and intentional engagement into each asana or posture. We hold poses longer, and we may take several rounds of breath in each pose, rather than put the emphasis on movement to breath. In contrast to POWER, BREATHE BALANCE is a combination of vinyasa flow and hatha yoga. The class is designed to warm your body up more gradually, while simultaneously calming the mind. The first half of class is more energetic, while the second half slows down into longer holds and asanas, bringing your body and mind back into balance. While the body is slowing down, the mind and soul have an opportunity to also slow down, reset and restore. Some hands-on assists may be used in this class, enhancing the overall experience of mind/body/soul unification.

Some common benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Decreases blood pressure through better circulation and oxygenation of the body

• Increases mobility on the joints (great for people who are suffering from arthritis or any kind of joint trouble or injury!)

• Prevents muscle fatigue and tissue damage by stretching and releasing muscles and soft tissue

• Improves blood circulation by transporting nutrients and oxygen throughout the body

• Detoxifies the body

• Improves total body awareness, improving posture, flexibility, balance and calm

• Massages the internal organs, improving the ability of the body to prevent disease

• Removes excess carbon dioxide from the blood, improving immunity and allowing the body to heal faster

• Detoxifies and improves the function of the gastrointestinal system

• Strengthens the immune system

• Reduces stress and regulates the nervous system

• Lessens chronic pain, increases pain tolerance

• Balances the metabolism, helping to maintain a healthy weight and control hunger

• Increases energy and stamina

• Improves focus and discipline

• Improves sense of balance - physically and well as mentally

BREATHE SLOW + RESTORE (YIN YOGA)

While our other yoga classes are “yang” in style, with a focus on your muscles, BREATHE SLOW + RESTORE is yin-style yoga, which targets your deep connective tissues, like your fascia, ligaments, joints, and bones. This class is much slower and more meditative in nature, giving you space to turn inward and tune into both your mind and the physical sensations of your body. The class will either be a 60-, 75-, or 90-minute class in a non-heated room, holding poses for a longer period of time than you would in other traditional types of yoga, yin yoga helps you stretch and lengthen those rarely-used tissues while also teaching you how to breathe through discomfort and sit with your thoughts.

The practice of yin yoga is based on ancient Chinese philosophies and Taoist principles which believe there are pathways of Qi (energy) that run through our bodies. By stretching and deepening into poses, we’re opening up any blockages and releasing that energy to flow freely.

In BREATHE SLOW + RESTORE, the goal isn’t to move through postures freely—rather, postures could be held for three to five minutes, or even longer at a time. A yin practitioner is trying to access the deeper tissues, and many of the postures focus on areas that encompass a joint (such as the hips, sacrum, and spine). The yin class and practice is an essential complement to all of our yang-style classes.

Some common benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Decreases blood pressure through better circulation and oxygenation of the body

• Increases mobility on the joints (great for people who are suffering from arthritis or any kind of joint trouble or injury!)

• Prevents muscle fatigue and tissue damage by stretching and releasing muscles and soft tissue

• Improves blood circulation by transporting nutrients and oxygen throughout the body

• Detoxifies the body

• Improves total body awareness, improving posture, flexibility, balance and calm

• Massages the internal organs, improving the ability of the body to prevent disease

• Removes excess carbon dioxide from the blood, improving immunity and allowing the body to heal faster

• Detoxifies and improves the function of the gastrointestinal system

• Strengthens the immune system

• Reduces stress and regulates the nervous system

• Lessens chronic pain, increases pain tolerance

• Balances the metabolism, helping to maintain a healthy weight and control hunger

• Increases energy and stamina

• Improves focus and discipline

• Improves sense of balance - physically and well as mentally

BARKAN METHOD FLOW

Barkan Method Flow is a beautiful bridge between Bikram's Hot26+2 series and a vinyasa flow. Jimmy Barkan was an early student of Bikram Choudhury and was his lead student/teacher in the early 80s. Jimmy later branched off on his own to include more vinyasa into his classes. The class is based on a set series, where you can expect the same flows and standing postures for each class (with options for variations to add challenges or modifications). Spine strengthening and other hatha-based poses are also included in each class, coming directly from the Bishnu Ghosh (Bikram) lineage.

The series is a great opportunity to introduce vinyasa into a Hot26+2 practice, and also a great opportunity to introduce Hot26+2 into a vinyasa practice.

The class is practiced in a heated room and is for intermediate/advanced practitioners.

*New students and beginners are WELCOME, but please note the class moves fairly quickly.*

BUTI YOGA

THE BASICS OF BUTI

“Buti” is an Indian Marathi word meaning a cure that's been hidden or kept secret. Buti Yoga's foundation is about finding the only true cure within oneself. This class is a remix of your traditional vinyasa practice, incorporating dynamic movements, dance sprints and deep core toning. Class is cardio intense, and can always be modified for what your body needs. Reconnect with your body and soul by moving with the music and getting out of your own head. You'll experience liberating, primal movements mixed with shaking and vibration to help release stored trauma and stimulate cellular reorganization.

JASMINE’S STYLE

Jasmine says… “The only planning I do for Buti Yoga is in the playlist. I'll create a playlist the week leading up to class and only listen to it once all the way through. This allows me to make sure there is a mix of highs and lows, and truly be able to just move to the music during class. I do not plan my moves ahead of time, I do what the music tells my body to do in the moment. It is such a liberating way to teach and fully be present with myself and the students in my class. When it comes to picking songs for Buti, I'm always looking for a variety of beats. I love exploring other cultures through music and dance, so you'll often hear other languages in my music selection.”

BUTI AT BREATHE

Jasmine says… “There is amazing energy in the Buti classes at Breathe, an energy I haven't experienced anywhere except when I was at training. You can feel people supporting each other with the whoops and hollers. The energy is so strong and positive as we all let go of what we've been holding onto for the week, or maybe what feels like a lifetime. I can literally feel the joy and excitement of the students around me, it really hypes you up. Buti Yoga truly is for everybody and every body. It's not just for the student living in Harvard Square, it's for anyone who walks through our doors and wants to shake things up!”

YOGA SCULPT

Yoga Sculpt is where Vinyasa Yoga meets Strength Training. Starting with a breath-focused Vinyasa flow, you'll build on the same sequence by adding resistance training drills such as bicep curls or shoulder presses in your crescent lunge or one leg mountain pose. In between our yoga flows, we will add Circuit or HIIT training drills. The more you show up, the more familiar the flows and transitions will be.

A great way to strengthen your Vinyasa practice, improve your strength, flexibility, cardiovascular stamina, and range of motion.

Class is accessible to everyone regardless of your yoga or weight lifting experience - modifications are always offered and the entire class can be done without any additional weights. Yoga Sculpt is practiced in a warm room with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and muscle engagement. Expect to move and groove to the beat of the music.

Tips and tricks before, during and after any style class: 

• Please read our COVID-19 Info page for important information before coming in to practice.

• If this is your first time to BREATHE, please arrive at least 15 minutes before class begins. We start classes punctually and want to make sure you don’t miss out on any instruction.

• Hydrate! All of our classes are practiced in varying degrees of heat, so you will be sure to work up a sweat. Make sure to drink plenty of water prior to class (preferably starting the night before). We sweat a lot here, and so we also recommend adding electrolytes with or without your water. We sell water for $3/bottle, and also have a water fountain to fill your own bottle.

• Wear clothes you feel comfortable sweating in. We recommend clothes that wick sweat: sports bra/tank and shorts/leggings for women, jogging or biking shorts for men.

• If you have an injury, please talk to the instructor prior to class so they can give you proper modifications.

• Listen to your body. It’s normal to need breaks, especially as your body acclimates to the heat. Just breathe, take a sip of water and sit down on your mat until you’re ready to join back in. If you need to leave the room, quietly let the teacher know.

• Take the time in the final savasana. There is a 2+ minute meditation built into the end of every class. This is when your body begins to to absorb the benefits from class. When you’re ready to leave, exit the room quietly. After class, make sure to drink plenty of water.